My dumb ass with "why is the munich museum in oslo" I need more sleep...

I don't understand why people take pictures of the mona Lisa. Professional photos of it exist online.

I can't imagine any of those photos are coming out well either, so I don't understand the point. I can see a selfie or a picture of your family in front of it, but I'm never going to look at a phone pic of a framed painting behind glass at a distance.

Did you see the painting in the other side of the room the Mona Lisa was in? We I went there it was a gigantic and beautiful buffet with dozens and dozens on people. The whole time in the room I was looking the opposite way to her lol

I might be a little more informed because I'm Dutch, but Vermeer is fairly well-known, and e.g. The Milkmaid and View of Delft are, I believe, other fairly famous paintings of his (albeit less famous than The Girl with the Pearl Earring).

Vermeer might have been a pupil of Carel Fabritius, who was a pupil of Rembrandt. The interesting thing about Fabritius is that many of his paintings got destroyed in an explosion (that also killed Fabritius), and only about a dozen remain. Which I think is also mind-blowing: this potential important link between two famous painters might very well himself have produced such wonders, but we'll never know.

(If you're ever in the area, I would highly recommend a visit to the Mauritshuis in The Hague. And if you like reading, The Goldfinch (referencing the Fabritius painting) by Donna Tartt is the novel that got me into all this in the first place.)

I know it's kinda off topic, but what I find even weirder are bands that are "one hit wonders" in one country, but have like 10 hits and a long career in another country.

They'll have a whole wikipedia article of awards they've won you've never heard of, and tours they went on, and you're like "they wrote more than one song!?"

a-ha and their eleven studio albums have entered the chat

Now I want to know which of Two Princes or Little Miss Can't Be Wrong you haven't heard yet. The two-hit-wonder disrespect here is staggering, I say. Staggering!

I can see why The Scream jumped out as unique with its surreal image, but in his 205 works he's got a few that are decent paintings. Just not as eye catching. And I'm no expert, so maybe someone with knowledge of use of color or flow or whatever could say what level he was.

These are sick, thanks for sharing!

Same as described above and in comments.

Tons of people taking selfies, pictures, anything.

Thing is, you really can’t capture anything great about The Kiss if you’re not in person. It’s all about the way the light reflects in the gilding.

(Source: was in Vienna and saw it in person last year. In case you’re wondering, I don’t think I took a single photo but looked at it for like 20 minutes from every angle I could.)

Yes and this goes for all forms of arts. It's not too different from just knowing that music legend for one song when they have a whole library. Poets too. Often have that one or two that "everyone" knows whilst some absolutely wonderful pieces can be lost and forgotten.

It can be more personal, imo, to explore the pieces that aren't spoken about as much, that already have a predefined narrative. That's when you get to really organically perceive art - in whatever medium it is.

Counterpoint: sometimes the best still shot requires a particular moment captured with a particular, consciously arranged setup.

This interview of a veteran NBA photographer breaks it down of how he only has a single shot per shot because of how he necessarily relies on strobes set up to not distract the players or interfere with the broadcast. As a result, he scouts/studies each player and team so that he knows when the right moment is to actually capture the shot, because he can't exactly ask players to do it again.

If you read interviews of Pulitzer photography winners, they'll often say a lot of the same things: being prepared and being lucky and having that convergence of having incredibly high skill/expertise/understanding of the setting, while being able to capture in every opportunity presented.

You should capture a lot of photos and examine them to understand how to make them better, and increase your skill level and understand your subject so that you can still optimize for the very best shot possible.

Is she hot?

What is your favorite memory with her?

Does the constant steam of people taking shitty photos of the art and shuffling past like it's a reality show race, not experiencing the art as anything other than a shit photo they could have found online, weigh on her soul?